floppy
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Over the course of four minutes, the robot fumbled with the towel’s floppy and unwieldy shape as it slowly smoothed out the fabric, located the corners and lined up the edges.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
“On paper, people have said, you know, you’re a guy in an indie rock band who does stand-up and has floppy hair, you’re technically a cool guy,” Thomas said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
A trans-Atlantic celebrity since the ’60s, Hockney cut a dandyish figure with rakish touches such as floppy bow ties, scarves, caps and pocket squares.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
The group of partyers with floppy hair that Johnson moved in with called themselves the Sway House and developed a reputation as the bad boys of early TikTok.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
Somkit slapped a floppy cap on Pong's head.
From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat
Or 5.25-inch floppies, like some of the DOS versions did.
From The Verge ● Jul. 20, 2022
Microsoft, which had glad-handed Netscape and bundled everything and then some onto its Windows and Office floppies, needed an insurance protection against a Department of Justice that was to the company’s dark competitive arts.
From BusinessWeek ● Dec. 9, 2013
The other day, I found some floppies left me by a friend a decade dead – letters, poems – and realised that I no longer had a drive or a programme that could read them.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 25, 2011
Many pointed out floppies are needed to access even newer computers' deepest innards - their bios.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2010
If your system supports booting from a CD-ROM, you don't need any floppies.
From Debian GNU/Linux : Guide to Installation and Usage by John Goerzen
Still, the scenes themselves play out floppier than you’d expect.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2025
Celery works, too — the stalks will be floppier, but can still elevate your sauces and soups.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 2022
After multiple jumps from each pole, the squirrels were challenged with a much thinner, floppier steel beam.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 5, 2021
Ms. Isenberg said the Japanese began making floppier toys in the 1970s and 1980s, and Korean manufacturers stepped in with soft-fabric production in the 1980s.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 24, 2020
Rhoda was thinner than ever, and floppier, and took even less pains to be neat.
From The Lee Shore by Dame Rose Macaulay
It’s a middle-of-the-spectrum, Goldilocks option — not the firmest or the floppiest, neither the silkiest nor the craggiest, but it will slide comfortably on the boards, which have been playing on the slow side.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 11, 2022
While NBC gives precious little airtime to the phenomenon, limiting us to brief post-race glimpses, I've compiled Rio de Janeiro’s floppiest jowls into a non-stop, minute-long flop-fest: all jowls, all the time.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2016
"They said you were the floppiest flopper they ever saw," I told him.
From Roy Blakeley's Camp on Wheels by Howard L. (Howard Livingston) Hastings
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